Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term “Java” refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha -- version 0.1 -- of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes ...

Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, ...